The purpose of this project was to design and evaluate two different towers to support a prototypical wind turbine for a proposed wind farm to be located on Horseshoe Shoal, in Nantucket Sound. The design parameters, for each tower height, complied with two limit states approaches: an extreme 50-year storm event, and a more frequent 10-year event. An estimated range of costs for the construction and installation of the wind farm was determined and compared with an estimate of the generated income.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• King, Andre Lloyd
• Horsman, Dale Alan

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 03D144M

Advisor

• Albano, Leonard D.
• Mathisen, Paul P.

Year

• 2003

Date created

• 2003-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Civil Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright